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2667 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

All areas2667 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture86 Software Architecture & Engineering84 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture90 Data Platform Architecture88 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics81 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk88
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3 questions in Fitness Functions.

  1. Fitness Functions advanced

    "Interview. You are the architect for a grocery marketplace where item availability changes constantly. Name three fitness functions you would put in CI to protect the architecture, and explain what each one would have caught." What makes a strong answer?

    2 min answer fitness-functionsciinstacartmarketplace
  2. Fitness Functions advanced

    Architecture decisions in your organisation are either ignored or bottlenecked in a review board. Design something better.

    3 min answer governanceadrfitness-functionsprinciples
  3. Fitness Functions advanced

    In 2023 a team added a build rule forbidding the domain module from importing the persistence module, and it went green. In 2026 the domain module imports persistence in fourteen places and the build is still green. No one disabled the rule and no one edited it. Reconstruct how a passing check ended up protecting nothing.

    3 min answer fitness-functionsarchitecture-testingdriftsilent-failure
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2667 interview questions, 5726 flashcards, 2205 glossary entries and 55 worked deliverables across 30 areas of the solution architecture curriculum. Free, no sign-up, no paywall.

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